Stories by Jawed Naqvi
Modi in his own view thus became India’s answer to Lorenzo de Medici, Michelangelo and Copernicus rolled into one.
Updated 02 Dec, 2025 10:05am
Syal’s tragedy prodded a gentle side of the human spirit when deeply felt tributes started coming from across the border.
Updated 25 Nov, 2025 09:25am
India’s opposition parties might want to figure out their priorities at the outset.
Updated 18 Nov, 2025 09:02am
For Mamdani’s politics, the 1957 Kerala experiment seems relevant — a communist government in a bourgeois state.
Updated 11 Nov, 2025 09:12am
Which player does not have a prayer on their lips when they brace for a tense contest?
Updated 04 Nov, 2025 09:26am
Bihar is the rare north Indian state where the Hindu right is struggling to take power on its own.
Updated 28 Oct, 2025 08:44am
Many would be glued to their sets like their Indian counterparts on Sunday mornings for the hour the legend.
Published 21 Oct, 2025 07:15am
Much has been said about women journalists not being invited to the Afghan press conference by the Taliban foreign minister.
Updated 14 Oct, 2025 09:54am
Was the Fahd plan a sleight of hand, an illusion, or the bus the Arabs missed?
Updated 07 Oct, 2025 09:16am
Justice Chandrachud’s decision bequeathed 2.77 acres of land, which had been contested for decades, to the infant deity Ram.
Updated 30 Sep, 2025 09:46am
It can’t be blamed on terrorism that Modi’s India struggles to find stable relations with other neighbours too — of varied religious hues.
Updated 23 Sep, 2025 08:38am
The short-lived street violence in Nepal doesn’t quite seem to fit the description of any upheaval.
Updated 16 Sep, 2025 08:44am
Those accusing Trump of betraying India haven’t learnt from history.
Updated 09 Sep, 2025 08:59am
India has 800m on food dole, signalling the contradiction between its right-wing government shored up by big money
Published 02 Sep, 2025 04:33am
Handy lessons can be gleaned from Corrie’s murder, both by Priyanka Gandhi and every foreign supporter of the Palestinian struggle.
Updated 26 Aug, 2025 09:37am
Why is it so difficult to instil a simple, inexpensive idea for diplomacy?
Updated 19 Aug, 2025 09:05am
In one flourish, Gandhi may have helped dissolve widespread fears of a religio-fascist takeover of India.
Updated 12 Aug, 2025 09:17am
The brouhaha over Trump’s scarecrow tariffs is a deliberately exaggerated reaction.
Updated 05 Aug, 2025 09:02am
Delivering a theocratic revamping of India’s constitution would need at least a pretence of popular support.
Updated 29 Jul, 2025 10:22am
That nationalism, embodied in the worldview of Hindutva, would be facing a decisive moment soon.
Published 22 Jul, 2025 08:56am
